Author Twinkle Khanna celebrates her 47th birthday today. The actor turned writer's birthday coincides with her father and late actor Rajesh Khanna's birth anniversary. To mark such a momentous occasion of her life, Twinkle Khanna wrote a long essay for Tweak India titled, "Father’s Day, for me, will always be in December".
Alongside the essay dedicated to her late father, Twinkle also shared a black and white photo of her childhood, laughing along with the first superstar of the film industry.
Check it out here.
She started her essay by writing how 'he said to my mother' Dimple Kapadia that she was the best present Dimple could have given Khanna on his 31st birthday.
"He always called me Tina baba, never baby, and though I didn’t realise it at that point, my upbringing was different from all the other young girls around me. The restrictions drawn around their adolescence did not define mine. The permanent marker, one that would later be passed onto their husbands, to enforce the circle of captivity did not exist in my case," she wrote.
She also spoke about his death in the year 2012 and said, "Loss is not a constant ache, nor does it come equipped with a full stop. It lives between pauses and emerges at unexpected moments. Sometimes it’s a song on the radio or when I am applying kohl and I see his eyes, under the same arched brows staring out of my reflection."
"It is lurking within every birthday when I wake up in excitement before my heart sinks. Year after year, he said the same thing. Something that no one else can ever say again, 'Happy birthday to you too, Tina baba'," she wrote of "the only man who had the power to break my heart."